Analytics

Raymond A. Gensinger, Jr., MD, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, discusses his bestselling HIMSS book, Analytics in Healthcare: An Introduction, at HIMSS15.

With $9.75 million in hand from gifts and matching funds, Duke University is launching an initiative focused on harnessing vast amounts of data to tackle society's biggest challenges. Healthcare is chief among them.

There's a problem in the world of data analytics. A new survey of health IT professionals shows that the lion's share of them see clinical and business intelligence as top priorities for 2015, but the majority also say they don't even know what data to actually collect.

The FDA is offering a grant of up to $1 million to turn large amounts of EHR data into numbers the agency can use to gauge the effectiveness of FDA-approved drugs.

(SPONSORED) Jamie Crawford of Elekta Software talks about the state of the oncology market and the role Elekta Software Analytics’ plays in measuring quality and performance.

Carla Smith talks about HX360 and shares some fun facts from the HIMSS annual conference.

Jeffery D. Hurst, SVP Finance at Florida Hospital, describes changes in revenue cycle management at his organization, including a focus on analytics and driving patient engagement.

With most patient data now being recorded in a shareable form, we're poised to accelerate population health IT. Now it's on to the next set of major challenges, which will be front-and-center at HIMSS15: sharing data and putting it to beneficial use.

Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be leaving in April. No word yet about what's next for him.

Mount Sinai Health System tapped Royal Philips to create a state-of-the-art digital image repository of patient tissue samples. Today, the samples are available only on glass slides.